Discovering Joy: Your Self-Love Journey to Lasting Happiness

Mike Wood
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Discovering Joy takes you on an empowering voyage from self-doubt to self-love, equipping you with science-backed tools, inspiring stories, and daily practices that ignite genuine happiness.  Stacey Chillemi sits down with real-life “joy seeker” Mike Wood to reveal: Proven mindset shifts that rewire negative self-talk into uplifting inner dialoguePractical rituals—from gratitude journaling to body-positive movement—that cultivate deep self-compassionHeartfelt interviews sharing breakthrough moments and lessons on embracing your worthActionable exercises you can implement today to boost confidence, connection, and joyWhether you’re just beginning to explore self-love or seeking fresh inspiration to deepen your practice, Discovering Joy is your go-to guide for sustainable well-being and inner radiance. 👉 Follow & subscribe on Spreaker (and your favorite podcast app) to unlock every episode, share the path to joy with your community, and join our movement of self-love champions!

Episodes

  1. Feb 10

    Your Symptoms Are Trying to Tell You Something

    Most people spend years treating symptoms and never once ask what those symptoms are trying to say. Your body is always communicating — through fatigue, tension, food cravings, emotional walls, and physical pain — but nobody taught you the language. Mike Wood, intuitive health guide and creator of Learn to Love Being You, breaks down how body awareness and conscious living can transform your health, relationships, and spiritual clarity from the inside out. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  2. Jan 29

    You Keep Saying Yes When You Mean No

    Saying yes when you mean no feels safer than the alternative — until it costs you your health, your relationships, and your sense of self. What looks like kindness is often fear in disguise, and most people-pleasers never learned that boundaries are not selfish; they are survival. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, breaks down how childhood conditioning created the pattern and what it actually takes to stop shrinking and start living with integrity. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  3. Jan 13

    Why Your Anxiety Won't Go Away No Matter What You Try

    If you have tried breathing exercises, therapy, and positive thinking but anxiety keeps coming back, the problem might not be your coping skills. It might be a belief your nervous system formed before you were old enough to question it. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, explains how subconscious core beliefs quietly drive adult anxiety, why your brain can't tell past danger from present safety, and how compassion and reframing can finally update the program running underneath. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  4. 12/30/2025

    You're Still Carrying Pain Someone Else Caused

    Resentment doesn't punish the person who hurt you — it punishes you. Most people hold onto anger because forgiving feels like excusing what happened, but that misunderstanding is exactly what keeps the wound open. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, breaks down forgiveness as a practical emotional skill: how to release what you're carrying, set firm boundaries without bitterness, and begin forgiving yourself for the ways you stayed too long. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  5. 12/16/2025

    Your Roles and Labels Are Burning You Out

    When you define yourself by your roles — parent, partner, provider, professional — losing any of them can feel like losing yourself entirely. That grip is called attachment, and it quietly drives anxiety, conflict, and emotional burnout without you ever realizing it. Mike Wood, former CFO turned emotional healing coach and creator of Learn to Love Being You, explains how unhealthy attachments form, how to tell the difference between passion and clinging, and what it looks and feels like to finally let go. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  6. 12/02/2025

    What Loving Yourself Really Looks Like

    Most people were taught that putting yourself first is selfish, that toughening up beats feeling things, and that needing help is weakness. That programming is exactly why so many people are quietly crumbling. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, gets brutally honest about what real self-love actually requires: confronting ego, practicing forgiveness, setting hard boundaries, and finally addressing the silent suffering that most people, especially men, never talk about. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  7. 11/18/2025

    Why You're Stressed Out and Can't Find the Off Switch

    Most people reach for their phone, a drink, or a distraction when stress hits — and still feel wired an hour later. The missing piece isn't more willpower; it's learning to work with your nervous system instead of against it. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, walks through breathwork, pranayama, and chakra awareness as practical tools for calming anxiety fast, building heart-brain coherence, and shifting from fear-first to energy-first living in your daily life. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  8. 11/04/2025

    Your Brain Is Stuck in Fear Mode and Doesn't Know It

    When cortisol is running the show, everything feels harder than it should — decisions, relationships, leadership, and even basic calm. Most people don't realize their brain is defaulting to fear, not because something is wrong with them, but because nobody showed them the switch. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, breaks down the brain chemistry behind fear versus love, a seven-day reframe you can start today, and how one company scaled from $2.5M to $95M by leading with compassion instead of control. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  9. 10/21/2025

    How Your Thoughts Are Running Your Life Without Permission

    Most people believe they are their thoughts. That belief is exactly why anxiety, negative loops, and emotional reactivity feel impossible to escape. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, walks through the practical tools that create real mental quiet: How to separate yourself from your thoughts, use box breathing and gratitude to shift from cortisol to oxytocin, and why emotional intelligence outperforms IQ every single time pressure hits. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  10. 09/23/2025

    Why You Can't Turn Off Your Mind and You're Exhausted

    When your mind won't stop, most people reach for distraction and wake up just as drained. The real reset isn't more willpower — it's learning to work with the present moment instead of running from it. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, shares how box breathing, journaling, and simple daily presence practices lower stress fast, rewire the subconscious, and dissolve the emotional blocks quietly keeping you stuck. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  11. 09/16/2025

    You've Achieved Everything and Still Don't Feel Like Yourself, What Now?

    Achieving everything on the list and still feeling empty is one of the most disorienting experiences a person can have. The gap between external success and internal peace doesn't mean you failed — it means nobody gave you the second half of the map. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, shares how he turned dyslexia, burnout, and self-doubt into a three-phase inner freedom method and what it actually takes to rewire your subconscious and build a life that feels as good as it looks. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

  12. 06/03/2025

    Anxiety Is Stealing Your Peace and You're Running Out of Ways to Fight It

    When stress keeps coming back no matter what you try, the problem isn't your effort — it's the system. Most anxiety tools treat the symptom without touching the pattern underneath. Mike Wood, creator of Learn to Love Being You, walks through his 10-week inner peace blueprint: micro-meditations built for busy people, body-scan techniques that release tension fast, journaling prompts that rewire negative self-talk, and the accountability habit that makes the whole thing stick. CONNECT WITH MIKE WOOD! 🌐 Website: learntolovebeingyou.com 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/mike222777 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/mike.wood.882155

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Discovering Joy takes you on an empowering voyage from self-doubt to self-love, equipping you with science-backed tools, inspiring stories, and daily practices that ignite genuine happiness.  Stacey Chillemi sits down with real-life “joy seeker” Mike Wood to reveal: Proven mindset shifts that rewire negative self-talk into uplifting inner dialoguePractical rituals—from gratitude journaling to body-positive movement—that cultivate deep self-compassionHeartfelt interviews sharing breakthrough moments and lessons on embracing your worthActionable exercises you can implement today to boost confidence, connection, and joyWhether you’re just beginning to explore self-love or seeking fresh inspiration to deepen your practice, Discovering Joy is your go-to guide for sustainable well-being and inner radiance. 👉 Follow & subscribe on Spreaker (and your favorite podcast app) to unlock every episode, share the path to joy with your community, and join our movement of self-love champions!

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